If these hybrids run amuck in Hollywood and stop the release of this horrid remake then I say its worth it!

If you're saying that the original nailed it, so the remake wasn't necessary (as was the case with the first installment of this series, the "Bad News Bears," and "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory"), I can't agree with you. "Planet of the Apes" with Charlie Heston was pretty close to perfect. Tim Burton ruins everything he gets his fat ugly hands on. That being said, the original "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" was so bad that even Roddy McDowell & Ricardo Monteblan couldn't hide their embarrassment completely.

RE :”If you're saying that the original nailed it, so the remake wasn't necessary (as was the case with the first installment of this series, the “Bad News Bears,” and “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory”), I can't agree with you. “Planet of the Apes” with Charlie Heston was pretty close to perfect. Tim Burton ruins everything he gets his fat ugly hands on. That being said, the original “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes” was so bad that even Roddy McDowell & Ricardo Monteblan couldn't hide their embarrassment completely.”

Don't forget ‘Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)’ where James Gregory as General Ursus says “The Only good human is a dead human”. In the BEHIND THE PLANET OF THE APES documentary Heston said he only agreed to be in that dumb sequel because the script said he would get to blow up the Earth at the end and then his character Taylor couldn't be brought back again for an even dumber movie. But Heston didn't know that Hollywood had long discovered Time Travel, remember 1960s Time Tunnel and The Time Machine??

I found it ironic that the actor playing opposite Heston in the most recent remake was a vehement anti-gunner, who said he was “uncomfortable” playing in the scene with Heston.

And the scene itself was an explanation of the utility of GUNS to thwart the strong oppressing the weak.
In the scene, Heston’s “ape” stated that firearms could not be allowed to be re-discovered, or else the apes’ supremacy due to their strength would no longer be enforceable.

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posted on 07/22/2011 1:21:49 PM PDT
by MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)

I have. That was the source of my information - the link from his wikipedia entry. I don’t think it was mentioned there, but I’d heard that there were post French Revolutionary suggestions to try it more crudely, which were quashed by the then Pope. Sick, sick people. Pre- ‘Enlightenment’ it would have incurred the death penalty.

I don’t know about ancient aliens, ancient astronauts, bigfoot, yeti, that kind of thing. I’d guess there are some prosaic explanations for the as yet inexplicable, though I’m open-minded especially around things like yeti, or alma being included in Tibetan medical manuals that have no other fantastic creatures in them.

I haven’t seen much of the History Channel, so I can’t commiserate or even relate. Gotten a bit ahistorical has it?

RE :"Charlton Heston is a personal hero of mine, but he certainly did not come out of the original smelling like a rose. "

He has been one of my favorite actors since I was a kid, I loved those cheesy sci-fi movies like Soylant Green that my dad took me to back then.

The original Planet 1968 wasnt bad, it had a good theme, it had good actors, it had some good lines, it had thought provoking sci-fi imagination themes like :"Ape was made in God's image unlike the destructive Animal Man " was a great one, and the shocker visual of him on the beach reacting to the Liberty Statue is a classic. The following sequels were all crap.

But heck, I was a kid in the 1970s and in NYC around 1974 I went to see an all day showing of all five Planet movies in a row. Those were the 1970s 'Creature Feature/Chiller theater/Fright Night" days in NYC, a great time to be a kid.

Comparing black people to apes is universally frowned upon as racist in modern society. The basis for this goes back to the turn of the last century, when Darwin's theory began to be generally accepted, white supremacists borrowed it to suggest that blacks were less evolved.

I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt, and assuming you know this, but making that suggestion about the President and his family (even in jest) is the kind of thing the mainstream media uses to portray the members of this website as angry, ignorant rednecks. They only need a couple of such examples out of every million or so posts, and, believe me, they have people looking for them.

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